Joorabchian left last year\u2019s Book 1 around \u00a325m lighter<\/a> in his wallet, but with 25 new yearling recruits as additional ammo for Amo. He has made no secret of his ambition to buy in at the top table of global Flat racing, and challenge the old money of John Magnier\u2019s Coolmore Stud operation and the sovereign wealth of Sheikh Mohammed\u2019s Godolphin, so he was never likely to stop at a single purchase this time around.<\/p>\nBut there was less of the sense of a trolley dash about Joorabchian\u2019s activity, on the opening day at least, and a willingness too to back out of a bidding duel when his ceiling price had been reached.<\/p>\n
Having beaten off Coolmore to secure Lot 15, a Frankel full-brother to a filly bought by Amo at this sale last year for 4.4m gns (\u00a34.62m) that has yet to race, Joorabchian shook his head at 3.7m gns (\u00a33.9m) for Lot 90, a colt by the Derby and Arc winner, Sea The Stars, when it became clear that Sheikh Mohammed\u2019s Godolphin operation was determined to have him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe horse we wanted today was the Frankel,\u201d Joorabchian said afterwards. \u201cFor us as an operation, that was important. We bought the sister [last year], we wanted to strengthen the family.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Sea The Stars was a beautiful horse, a very good walker, strong and tall, but he wasn\u2019t a must-have for our operation at this stage, so we just decided to step away.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve got to be disciplined, and at some point you\u2019ve got to step away. We were up against Coolmore in the first one and Godolphin in the second, so it\u2019s not an easy fight. You\u2019re up against the two biggest in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another Frankel colt, for a relatively modest 440,000 gns (\u00a3462,000), was the only other significant Amo buy on day one, as Joorabchian continues to search for a horse to compete with uber-stallions in the biggest bloodstock operations.<\/p>\n
Quick GuideGreg Wood’s Wednesday tipsShow<\/p>\n
Greg Wood’s Wednesday tips<\/strong><\/p>\nNottingham<\/b>\u00a01.28 Hello It\u2019s Me 1.58 Loving Look 2.28 Edaari 2.58 Sea The Power 3.28 Good Heavens 3.58 Urban Sprawl 4.30 Hinchinbrooke 5.00 Shark Two One\u00a0
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Ludlow<\/b>\u00a02.05 Percy Shelley 2.35 Sergeant Fury 3.05 Kate O\u2019Riley 3.35 Another Day Out 4.08 Versace Twentyone 4.40 Chestnut Pete 5.15 Noonetellsmenothin
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Sedgefield<\/b>\u00a02.15 Jolie Coeur Allen 2.45 Pescatorius 3.15 Dickens 3.45 Obsessedwithyou 4.15 Captain Cool 4.50 Opale De Maine\u00a0
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Kempton<\/b>\u00a04.03 Rapid Force 4.35 Seventy 5.07 Siren Suit 5.40 Title Roll 6.10 Art Lover (nap) 6.40 Kosometsuke (nb) 7.10 Bear Island 7.40 Best Rate 8.10 Equalised\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhen you\u2019re talking about trying to create stallions and buying good pedigree broodmares for the future, they [Coolmore and Godolphin] are 30 or 40 years ahead of us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we\u2019re playing catch-up after they built their stock for many, many years, and you can see what they breed. Godolphin have done an unbelievable job this year with home-breds.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone has the same strategy, to create the best stallion you can, and you\u2019ve got to go for the big colts. You can\u2019t accelerate the process. The top stallions are not for sale so you need to create your own stallion, and the big colts are making the big numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first seven-figure buy arrived within an hour on the opening day of the elite Book 1 sale…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-481050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115334468294259348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}